A new translation from Hindi. The talks compiled in this book were given in the 1970s in Ahmedabad and Mumbai and originally published as ‘Hasiba Kheliba Dhariba Dhyanam’ – understand your anger, your worries, your tensions, your insomnia, your bodily diseases – why and how they arise, and how they can be overcome.

In this remarkable collection, Osho touches on every aspect of life. He shows that man as he is, is a disease, and how people can be healed by medicine and meditation working together to form a complete science. Osho gives a detailed description of why catharsis is a necessary part of his modern meditation methods, and what is needed for transformation. Catharsis is described as an overflow, a flood that breaks all barriers, in which anger and long-suppressed emotions are related – not onto others, but into the void, into the open sky. And then “Everything will be gone. When the mind becomes empty of repression and habits, awareness will happen easily.”

Responding to questions, Osho clears up many misconceptions about the mind, awareness, meditation, real and false religions, and the effect of the will.

This short and comprehensive work gives the reader an overview of Osho’s vision and guidelines for his own meditations, as well as a roadmap toward a more blissful, happier humanity.

Man is a disease. Diseases come to man, but man himself is also a disease. That is his problem, and that is also his uniqueness; that is his good fortune, and that is also his misfortune. No other animal on earth is such problem, such an anxiety, such a tension, such a disease, such an illness as man is. But this very donation has given man all his growth, all his evolution.

Chapter titles

Medicine and Meditation: The Two Poles of One Science
Meditation: A Scientific Process
Jumping into the Unknown
Catharsis and Meditation
Wakeful Watching: Losing the Identification with Thoughts

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You must learn to work without me. You cannot be here always, you will have to go far away; you cannot hang around me forever, you have other works to do. You have come from different countries all over the world; you will have to go. For a few days you will be here with me, but if you become addicted to my physical presence then rather than being a help it may become a disturbance, because then when you go away, you will miss me. Your meditation should be such here that it can happen without my presence, then wherever you go the meditation will not be in any way affected.
And this too has to be remembered: I cannot always be in this physical body with you; one day or another the physical vehicle has to be dropped. My work is complete as far as I am concerned. If I am carrying this physical vehicle, it is just for you; some day, it has to be dropped. Before it happens you must be ready to work in my absence, or in my non-physical presence which means the same. And once you can feel me in my absence you are free of me, and then even if I am not here in this body the contact will not be lost.

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